Biography Index: Past and Present features

• Entries on individuals that reflect the perspective of the time when they were written.
• More than a million article and book citations.
• Indexing of interviews and profiles of history makers, as well as obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenilia, book reviews, bibliographies, and exhibition reviews.
• Intuitive, fast, precise searching, offering quick and accurate access to a host of biographical material.
• Wilson-quality indexing—of biographical materials from an international range of thousands of periodicals and an average of more than 2,000 English-language books a year.
• Uniform name authority control, making it easy to find an individual from any period of history despite possible name variants.
• Retrospective coverage as far back as 1946.
• Subject-specific thesaurus developed specifically for this database, ensuring the most precise searching.
• Library holdings indicator, linked to your OPAC, so that patrons will know immediately if they can find cited issues on your shelves.
• In-built links to articles so that full-text articles can be easily acquired.
• Seamless links to full-text articles on any of your library’s OpenURL compliant databases at no additional charge.
• Daily updates to keep material current and relevant.

Thanks to the versatility of the WilsonWeb system, you can seamlessly search Biography Index: Past and Present on its own, or in combination with any of these trusted biographical resources for the fullest possible answer to your query:

Biography Reference Bank Select Edition
Current Biography Illustrated
Current Biography 1940 to Present
Junior Authors & Illustrators
World Authors